Footprint

John-Nicholas Ms. Cornell June 5 2006 Ecological Activity #5 Ecological Footprint Part I: 1. No I don’t think that it is fair for the United States to take up such a high percentage of the earth’s resources. 2. They think we hog all of the resources and they are suffering and starving because of consumption patterns. 3. My trash goes out to the “dump” I don’t think I generate 5 pounds of trash every day. I recycle anything that can be, and I don’t use many things that need to be thrown away everyday. 4. Yes I recycle at home and at school. When I am at other places it is many times harder to so because it is not so obvious where their recycling bins are. Part II: 4. I would have to move to a smaller house with more people in it as well as stop eating meat. 5. An ecological footprint is if everyone on the earth were to live the same way you do including traveling as much as you do and eating what you do then it show how many planets we would need to support all of us. I think a footprint is an appropriate method for judging our impact on the earth because it shows how much we consume and how if everyone was like us we could not all live here. 6. This activity really struck home to me, it showed that if everyone were to live the way I do, we would need 11 planets. The questions seemed to be pretty basic and the rights ones to judge how much a person consumes resources. 7. I am surprised that the website didn’t ask any questions about recycling. Part III: 2. 50 Barrels 3. Class: 2800 Barrels. School: 105000 Barrels. Town: 5000000 Barrels. State: 60000000 Barrels. The amount of oil spilled in Alaska is about as much as the amount that the combined families of CV and CHS students use per year. While this is not an overwhelming amount spilled it is enough to cause concerns and for us to be wasting our nonrenewable resources. 4. 261904.76190476190476190476190476 5. Family: 5238.0952380952380952380952380952 years. Class: 9353.7414965986394557823129251679 Years. School: 249.43310657596371882086167800448 years State: 0.087301587301587301587301587301567 6. Car pool, Walk, Recycle, Alternative sources of energy, Ride a bike, Hybrid cars, Grow your own food, Replace old toilets, More insulation in your house, High efficiency furnace.